Configuring quick button press/release in touchscreen

2013-03-15 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
Hello, I'm currently using debain wheezy and have a touch screen. The xorg evdev driver is correctly used and for the most part, all is well. I would like to however tweak the settings so that a touch simulates a button press and release. Currently, I see the following when I do a *xinput test

Re: Help diagnosing USB disk issue?

2013-03-15 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
Hello, I've had a similar issue to this and in my case it was due to the wrong order the modules were loading. Try the following: 1. blacklist uhci-hcd and usbhid in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf. - This forces ehci-hcd to load first. 2. Then once the system is up, manually modprobe

Re: use a 3TB WD Mybook on old etch system kernel 2.6.18-6-486. parted 1.7.1 has bugs. can I use modern parted on other system and move over drive

2013-03-15 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
Should work... Looking at the code for 2.6.18.6 it does have support for EFI partition scheme (GPT). To confirm if your kernel has support for it search EFI_PARTITION in /proc/config.gz or /boot/config to see if EFI partition is defined. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

How to get framebuffer device working with ATI radeon?

2009-07-16 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
I'm trying to get framebuffer loaded for the Radeon X1300/X1550 card that I have but have had no luck. Tried loading the following framebuffer drivers: * radeonfb * atyfb * aty128fb The only framebuffer driver that works is vga16fb. Other info: * Debian Squeeze on an x86 machine. *

Re: GNU Screen draws artifacts with Vim

2009-06-26 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Thu, 25 Jun 2009 18:53:53 -0700 Todd A. Jacobs nos...@codegnome.org wrote: On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 12:01:09PM -0700, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: I use screen extensively with Vim. Recently I tried a new color scheme that has a grey background. When scrolling using the keyboard...black

GNU Screen draws artifacts with Vim

2009-06-25 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
Hi, I use screen extensively with Vim. Recently I tried a new color scheme that has a grey background. When scrolling using the keyboard...black artifacts are left behind where the cursor position was. My terminal background is black. This does not happen with putty. Any ideas on which setting

Re: Network traffic failure after installing Lenny

2009-06-23 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Thu, 18 Jun 2009 02:24:24 -0500 Alejandro Barocio A. abaroci...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/4/15 Alejandro Barocio A. abaroci...@gmail.com: I can't do ping; I haven't tested it on a different network; but my stronger suspect is DHCP (for it runs on a WinXP OS). Neverthless, I never had such

Re: Cross-compiler tool chain

2009-06-16 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Fri, 29 May 2009 13:34:44 +0200 Oliver Schneider borba...@gmxpro.net wrote: Hi, What are you planning to do? The plan is to have one host machine that has a unified (all the same versions) set of GCC and a libc (not necessarily glibc) that can be used to build our product for

repotbug not loading ui

2009-05-01 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
I have used reportbug successfully a few times with the urwid interface without any problems. However, recently I can't get reportbug to load urwid or even gtk2 ui settings. Tried to look at the bug reports posted on debian but no luck. Even tried reconfiguring and using debug mode but can't

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2009 #643

2009-04-13 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Wed, 8 Apr 2009 09:34:27 -0400 Leonardo Cuyar Morales leo.cu...@gmail.com wrote: Hello I want to begin a new with this: I use sudo user to do some commands like root but after I sudo su to become root I can't write archives and files owned by root, is there a program who let me

Re: WinBlow$ Home Server equivalent

2009-04-12 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Thu, 9 Apr 2009 23:13:36 -0700 (PDT) Phillipus Gunawan mr_philli...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi There, My friend told me about Home Server, and when I have a read about it, wow The only feature that interest me is Drive Extender (taken from Windows Home Server Technical Brief - Drive

Re: new KDE (4.2) in Unstable, how's your experience?

2009-04-12 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Wed, 08 Apr 2009 11:46:30 -0400 H.S. hs.sa...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, Has anybody been playing around with the new KDE we got a few days ago in Sid? The graphics are nice, but looks like the GUI is not as fast or responsive as the older one. This is on a AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core

Re: Measure cp Speed?

2009-04-07 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 17:42:32 +0700 Zaki Akhmad zakiakh...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I am wondering, how do I measure the speed while I am doing cp command? -- Zaki Akhmad PS: cp is copy command Try out the 'pv' package it might be exactly what you're looking for.

Re: gconftool-2

2009-03-28 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Wed, 4 Mar 2009 22:32:09 -0500 Rick Pasotto r...@niof.net wrote: I keep my system updated daily to testing and that may be the problem but still there's something I don't understand. I have a script that is run by cron every 15 minutes to change the background on my screen. Recently the

Suspending and resuming compile process

2009-03-25 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
Hi, I have a fairly old laptop (500MHz G4) and I tend to compile a lot of applications from source. Most of time it doesn't take too long but when I compile large libraries or applications this sometimes takes 4-5 hours. An example is webkitgtk+ 1.1.3. I needed this to compile the latest version

Re: Lowest ram system with X. Presario 5166.

2009-03-25 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Tue, 3 Mar 2009 19:36:06 + Nuno Magalh__es nunomagalh...@eu.ipp.pt wrote: On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 7:00 PM, Daniel Lannstrom o...@trekdanne.se wrote: [...] Also, don't expect that firefox will be very fast. You might want to install another browser. I have heard that Opera has a

Re: Suspending and resuming compile process

2009-03-25 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 20:24:17 +0100 Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de wrote: On 2009-03-25 19:58 +0100, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: I have a fairly old laptop (500MHz G4) and I tend to compile a lot of applications from source. Most of time it doesn't take too long but when I compile large

Re: Suspending and resuming compile process

2009-03-25 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 20:06:33 +0100 Jochen Schulz m...@well-adjusted.de wrote: Amit Uttamchandani: Now, I am thinking of applying this to kernel compilation, etc. Is this common practice? Do others do this as well? I suspended while compiling kernels a few times already. I didn't even

Re: Recommended TrueType fonts

2009-02-24 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 05:01:30 + (UTC) T o n g mlist4sunt...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi, I want to install a minimum set of TrueType fonts. Which are ther recommended good ones? one of the fedora guys did some research on all the available free fonts (as defined by fedora guidelines). The web

Re: Proper modern way to install TrueType fonts in Lenny/Sid?

2009-02-21 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Sat, 21 Feb 2009 22:07:02 -0600 Kent West we...@acu.edu wrote: I'm trying to use an early-semitic font (midway down page http://www.ancient-hebrew.org/30_intro.html) on my Sid system. A couple of weeks ago I was playing with a Slashdot(?)-highlighted site that allows you to make a font

Re: grub error in fresh installation lenny

2009-02-20 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 06:24:09 -0800 (PST) Angus Auld aonghas_a...@yahoo.com wrote: --- On Tue, 2/10/09, PierPaolo pierpaolo.fra...@gmail.com wrote: From: PierPaolo pierpaolo.fra...@gmail.com Subject: grub error in fresh installation lenny To: debian-user debian-user@lists.debian.org

Re: radeonhd on R5xx based card + dri very slow

2009-02-19 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Mon, 16 Feb 2009 09:43:17 +0100 Thomas Preud'homme thomas.preudho...@celest.fr wrote: [snip] Yes, all of these is installed. I'm sorry in fact because I forgot about this thread: I actually found what was the problem. ATI cards need an additional option in xorg.conf in the section

Re: radeonhd on R5xx based card + dri very slow

2009-02-15 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Mon, 2 Feb 2009 19:14:36 +0100 Thomas Preud'homme thomas.preudho...@celest.fr wrote: [snip] glxgears 1008 frames in 5.0 seconds = 201.471 FPS 1226 frames in 5.0 seconds = 245.142 FPS 1237 frames in 5.0 seconds = 247.393 FPS 1236 frames in 5.0 seconds = 247.034 FPS If I play a game

[OT] Cross-Compiler tool chain

2009-01-17 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
Hey guys, I've been reading up quite a bit on cross-compiling. The basic idea is that we need to set up a GNU toolchain for a specific architecture that we want to build on. Based on my research there are several tools that do this automatically: 1. Crosstool - looks to be outdated 2.

Re: Dell Wireless 1397 (802.11 b/g) miniCard Intel Media Accelerator X4500HD

2009-01-16 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 20:14:41 +0530 (IST) tanushyam bhattacharjee gett...@yahoo.co.in wrote: Kindly let me know if the latest Debian 4.0r6 supports the following:- I suggest use lenny...it is the next stable version and it is in freeze right now. Meaning it will be released as stable soon.

Re: kernel panic after Lenny update

2009-01-16 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 20:59:29 + Vladimir Komendantsky komendant...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm sorry to tell you that today's package update cost me a system crash. The problem was with the package netatalk which was starting services at boot time. This resulted in a kernel panic. To repair

Re: Dell E5500 notebook and Debian support

2009-01-13 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Mon, 12 Jan 2009 01:02:12 +0530 (IST) tanushyam bhattacharjee gett...@yahoo.co.in wrote: Hi All, I am going to purchase a dell E5500 notebook and Debian Linux will be used as OS.I am interested to know whether latest Debian kernel supports the wireless and graphics of this model or

Re: Best File System for Cross-Platform backup

2008-12-26 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Thu, 25 Dec 2008 02:17:34 -0600 Ron Johnson ron.l.john...@cox.net wrote: On 12/25/08 01:47, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: I got an external hard drive to do some backup and it was formatted as FAT32, which is a logical choice. But I thought why should I use FAT32. I have a Debian Testing

Re: Best File System for Cross-Platform backup

2008-12-26 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Thu, 25 Dec 2008 08:59:46 + kj koffiejunkielistlur...@koffiejunkie.za.net wrote: Amit Uttamchandani wrote: So I decided to do a compromise. I formatted 100GB as Fat32 in case I need to plug it in to a windows machine. But the rest is in ext3 format. Different strokes

Re: Best File System for Cross-Platform backup

2008-12-26 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Thu, 25 Dec 2008 11:24:17 +0200 Andrei Popescu andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed,24.Dec.08, 23:47:41, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: I got an external hard drive to do some backup and it was formatted as FAT32, which is a logical choice. But I thought why should I use FAT32. I have

Re: Power saving in debian

2008-12-24 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Wed, 3 Dec 2008 00:34:34 +0100 Adem for-gm...@alicewho.com wrote: Hi, how can I use powersaving in Debian? I have Debian Lenny without a GUI desktop installed. Mostly it is accessed via ssh and svn. How can I configure it so that during inactivity the HD, CPU, fan etc lower their

Re: Issues with PCF and BDF Fonts after regular lenny updates [SOLVED]

2008-12-24 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Mon, 8 Dec 2008 23:36:39 +0100 Florian Kulzer florian.kulzer+deb...@icfo.es wrote: I apologize I did not follow with this for a while. I just got done finals I realized that on my system it is actually KDE that adds ~/.fonts to the font path when I log in. So it seems normal that it

Re: Java on Debian

2008-12-24 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Wed, 17 Dec 2008 11:03:15 -0600 Jordi Guti__rrez Hermoso jord...@gmail.com wrote: 2008/12/17 Girish Kulkarni gir...@hri.res.in: 1. What is the Java Runtime Environment? And the Java Development Kit? The JRE includes a virtual machine for running Java programs, the JDK is stuff like the

Best File System for Cross-Platform backup

2008-12-24 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
I got an external hard drive to do some backup and it was formatted as FAT32, which is a logical choice. But I thought why should I use FAT32. I have a Debian Testing and a Mac Machine. I could use a more advanced file system that has journalling, etc. So I decided to do a compromise. I

Re: Issues with PCF and BDF Fonts after regular lenny updates

2008-12-07 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
It should not be necessary to refer to ~/.fonts explicitly in ~/.fonts.conf. This directory is included in the font path by default. (You can check this with xset q; /home/$USER/.fonts should be listed at the end of the font path.) Ok, there's the first problem. When I do xset q

Re: Issues with PCF and BDF Fonts after regular lenny updates

2008-12-06 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Sat, 6 Dec 2008 16:50:02 +0900 Osamu Aoki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now default font set are picked via fontconfig thing. http://people.debian.org/~osamu/pub/getwiki/html/ch08.en.html#fontsinthexwindow Thanks for the reply. Your document definitely helped a lot in understanding fonts in

Issues with PCF and BDF Fonts after regular lenny updates

2008-12-05 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
I do my usual Lenny/Testing updates every couple of days and this time however, my terminal and X fonts are messed up. The curios thing is that it is only PCF or BDF fonts. TrueType fonts display correctly. For example, I use slim X11 session manager and this specific theme uses snap.pcf (from

LPD and text-based printer

2008-11-07 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
Is it possible to create an LPD printer that outputs to a text file? I have created printers in CUPS before but it always has been a PDF printer or a printer via SAMBA. Basically I print out a bunch of text files but I want it to be printed directly as text (not postcript). Well I guess if its

Re: Integrated hardware benchmark tools

2008-10-30 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Thu, 30 Oct 2008 05:17:05 + (UTC) T o n g [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I hope that we can have such integrated hardware benchmark toolkits soon. What do you say? Phoronix Test Suite -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: OOo 3.0 still not ready?? (was Re: Non-Debian Provided Packages)

2008-10-29 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:12:58 +0200 Michelle Konzack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Rene, I have never installed OOo on an ARM machine, but do you know, HOW much Memory I must have to run it? I have a Atmel AT91SAM9G20 (400 MHz) with 256 MByte SDRAM and 2x 512 MByte NAND Flash and a Freescale

Re: cannot install all updates

2008-10-25 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Sat, 25 Oct 2008 09:58:51 +0300 Andrei Popescu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri,24.Oct.08, 08:23:57, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: I'm running testing as well and I basically do the same thing you do but from the GUI (ncurses). The question I had was upgrading from aptitude gui, does

Re: cannot install all updates

2008-10-24 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Fri, 24 Oct 2008 10:48:02 +0300 Giorgos D. Pallas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rich Healey wrote: Will give you the info you're looking for, basically upgrade will do minor updates, security fixes, {dist,full}-upgrade will upgrade completely, potentially breaking everything. I'm

Re: That would be... (was Re: cannot install all updates)

2008-10-24 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Fri, 24 Oct 2008 12:53:34 -0500 Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/24/08 10:23, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: [snip] I'm running testing as well and I basically do the same thing you do but from the GUI (ncurses). The question I had was upgrading from TUI (text user interface

Re: Developing signal generator on ICH6

2008-10-23 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
I am looking at the alsa-driver to understand how does the driver configure the soundcard so I can do the same but I don't understand the source code at all... Do a google search for Linux Device Drivers (book is posted online) . It's a good intro to device driver development. It will help

Re: radeonhd 1.2.3 working for DRI ?

2008-10-23 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
I'd like to know if you experienced same things with same driver *and* other drivers. If you do experience the same problem, then I'd like to disable the loading of dri in xorg but unfortunetely neither commenting Load dri (because now xorg know what to load without telling him) nor

Re: radeonhd 1.2.3 working for DRI ?

2008-10-23 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
Yeah I did upgrade the xorg and mesa to be able to install radeonhd. Here are the package that have been upgraded : [MIS A JOUR] libgl1-mesa-dri 7.0.3-6 - 7.2-1 [MIS A JOUR] libgl1-mesa-glx 7.0.3-6 - 7.2-1 [MIS A JOUR] xserver-xorg 1:7.3+18 - 1:7.4~4 [MIS A JOUR] xserver-xorg-core

Re: Desktop search engines

2008-10-21 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Mon, 20 Oct 2008 21:38:23 -0700 John Magolske [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Celejar [EMAIL PROTECTED] [081020 12:49]: On Mon, 20 Oct 2008 12:23:25 -0700 Amit Uttamchandani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was looking for a simple desktop search engine, something that tracks metadata, etc

Re: usb device file

2008-10-20 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
However, there is no sde block file available in /dev. The closest things are sda, sdb, sdc, and sdd. I try mount using these device files, but the message I always get is 'mount: No medium found'. Udev is what creates the device file, right? Why isn't it creating an sde or sde1

Re: CUPS Mac Leopard

2008-10-20 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Mon, 20 Oct 2008 06:40:54 -0400 Tom Allison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I recently upgraded my macbook and my cups server and ran into another plethora of issues. First I changed my Linux boxes to UTF-8 charset and that fixed the problems they were having. ISO-8859-1 is not supported

Re: usb device file

2008-10-20 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Mon, 20 Oct 2008 10:16:54 -0800 Christopher Howard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Amit Uttamchandani wrote: However, there is no sde block file available in /dev. The closest things are sda, sdb, sdc, and sdd. I try mount using these device files, but the message I always get is 'mount

Re: usb device file [solved]

2008-10-20 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Mon, 20 Oct 2008 10:43:37 -0800 Christopher Howard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Christopher Howard wrote: Amit Uttamchandani wrote: However, there is no sde block file available in /dev. The closest things are sda, sdb, sdc, and sdd. I try mount using these device files

Desktop search engines

2008-10-20 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
I was looking for a simple desktop search engine, something that tracks metadata, etc. And since I'm not using KDE or GNOME, I would like something that does not depend on either. After some analysis I came down to the following choices: 1. Strigi - small, lightweight, development still

Re: Fluxbox Very Slow Window Movement and Lag

2008-10-19 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
I am running a minimal Debian Lenny AMD64 netinst. Graphics card is an ATI Radeon 4850 with the latest Drivers from ATI 8.10 Give the open source xf86-viedo-ati driver a try. It supports your chip. It actually is easier to set up and debug. I had problems with the proprietary ATI driver

[OT] Learning MIPS ISA using GCC and Debian

2008-10-19 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
I am learning the MIPS ISA in class and I guess the best way to learn this is using real world examples. Thus, I was hoping I could write a program in C and compile it into MIPS assembly and learn the MIPS ISA that way. I am not too familiar with gcc but I have used it and I also know that

Re: [OT] Learning MIPS ISA using GCC and Debian

2008-10-19 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Sun, 19 Oct 2008 20:55:03 -0400 Jerry Stuckle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would say that is one of the worst ways to learn MIPS. A good compiler will have numerous optimizations, and the resultant code may bear little resemblance to the original C. Even if you disable all

Re: [OT] Learning MIPS ISA using GCC and Debian

2008-10-19 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Sun, 19 Oct 2008 20:08:09 -0500 Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/19/08 19:39, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: I am learning the MIPS ISA in class and I guess the best way to learn this is using real world examples. Thus, I was hoping I could write a program in C and compile

Re: -- SPAM -- Re: Anti-Virus - seeking opinions

2008-10-17 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
But can it run stand-alone, to analyze all files in a tree, or plug into Samba, so that all new or modified files get scanned? Samba shares are just mounted file systems right? So I am sure that clamav can simply be used to scan those files in the shares... *If* it can run

Building Okular without KDE 4

2008-10-17 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
Having used okular in KDE 4, I believe it is one of the best and most feature rich pdf viewer out there. Mainly highlighting and ability to do comments are of most interest to me. However, I do not use KDE 4. Is it possible to build okular using QT4 libraries without KDE4? The package

Re: Anti-Virus - seeking opinions

2008-10-17 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
I will second Avast. You will have to pay for a company use, but they do have a freebie version that you can use at home. There is not much difference between the two from what I can tell (in terms of what they can do). Plus their support has been really helpful when I needed it. I have

Re: Building Okular without KDE 4

2008-10-17 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Fri, 17 Oct 2008 06:31:00 -0500 Hugo Vanwoerkom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Amit Uttamchandani wrote: Having used okular in KDE 4, I believe it is one of the best and most feature rich pdf viewer out there. Mainly highlighting and ability to do comments are of most interest to me

Re: -- SPAM -- Re: Anti-Virus - seeking opinions

2008-10-16 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Thu, 16 Oct 2008 22:41:49 -0500 Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/16/08 21:35, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: Don Sutter wrote: Hi All, I certainly hope the following doesn't start a flame war! I would like to use Linux to scan Windows drives for viruses. Since Linux is

How to use aptitude to distinguish packages?

2008-10-15 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
I've been reading the man pages for aptitude but I can't seem to figure out how to use it to distinguish between packages of different branches. Basically here are the scenario: 1. List all packages installed that are from experimental. 2. List all packages installed that are non-free or

Re: How to use aptitude to distinguish packages?

2008-10-15 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Wed, 15 Oct 2008 22:08:32 +0200 Florian Kulzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 11:54:56 -0700, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: I've been reading the man pages for aptitude but I can't seem to figure out how to use it to distinguish between packages of different branches

Re: HOWTO convert a pdf to a docbook(XML) format or to a po format

2008-09-29 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Mon, 29 Sep 2008 16:12:43 +0800 Ji ZhengYu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: HI, I'm not in list, so please CC to me. As subject, I want to convert a pdf file to another format, which is easy to modify and translate. I'd prefer to use vi with po plugin to translate some file, so it's best to

Re: help with samba client?

2008-09-25 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Thu, 25 Sep 2008 11:52:51 +0100 Philip [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I used to be able to use smbmount to mount a samba share into a non-root users directory, but a while back it stopped working. The man page suggests mount -t smbfs but when I try it I get an only root can do that error

Re: Grub overkill

2008-09-24 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Wed, 24 Sep 2008 09:52:46 -0400 John Culleton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is more of an annoyance than a serious problem but whenever I build a Debian or Debian-derivative OS and grub detects other OS it overdetects them. I have a single Slackware partition. Grub always lists this

Bad year 1903 for /var/log/aptitude

2008-09-24 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
Anacron sends out a local email complaining about logrotate: /etc/cron.daily/logrotate: error: bad year 1903 for file /var/log/aptitude in state file /var/lib/logrotate/status run-parts: /etc/cron.daily/logrotate exited with return code 1 Looking at /var/log with ls -l i see several different

Re: Unpredictable behaviour of Sata in Lenny

2008-09-23 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Tue, 23 Sep 2008 11:27:04 +0530 Mridul Manohar Mishra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am facing a weird problem in Lenny, till now I have been running Etch without any problem. Two days ago I upgraded to Lenny, installation went If I'm not mistaken, when you upgrade from Etch to Lenny.

Re: Shorewall Firewall with dynamic interfaces

2008-09-21 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Sun, 21 Sep 2008 12:02:34 +1200 Chris Bannister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 10:18:38AM -0700, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: Yes, shorewall is very powerful! Also, do you get the error: touch: cannot touch `/var/lock/subsys/shorewall': No such file or directory

Re: Shorewall Firewall with dynamic interfaces

2008-09-21 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Mon, 22 Sep 2008 02:24:26 +1200 Chris Bannister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 11:13:09PM -0700, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: no /var/lock/subsys/ directory. You are right, I don't have that directory either. I did a google search and this is basically

Shorewall Firewall with dynamic interfaces

2008-09-20 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
Following the setup for shorewall firewall I was able to get it up and running for the eth1 interface (local wired RJ45). Now, I would also like to setup my wireless adapter with shorewall (eth0). How is this done? Is it as simple as adding: net eth0 detect dhcp,tcpflags,logmartians,nosmurfs

Re: How to set print PDF work

2008-09-20 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Sat, 20 Sep 2008 11:40:42 +0800 (CST) Stephen Liu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks, Debian Etch CUPS PDF printer I have cups-pdf installed. $ apt-cache policy cups-pdf cups-pdf: Installed: 2.4.2-3 Candidate: 2.4.2-3 Version table: *** 2.4.2-3 0 500

Re: Shorewall Firewall with dynamic interfaces

2008-09-20 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Sat, 20 Sep 2008 11:06:24 +0300 Andrei Popescu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [I have wrapped all your lines to less than 80 characters] On Sat,20.Sep.08, 00:38:11, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: Following the setup for shorewall firewall I was able to get it up and running for the eth1

Re: [Debian-User] Gtk fonts on non desktop (non gnome) X environment.

2008-07-17 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 09:19:06 -0600 Javier Vasquez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I use fluxbox, with no desktop (no kde, no gnome no xfce, ...). But I have the problem of not being able to configure the fonts for the gtk guis... For example I can't make the tab menus, readable for me on

Re: [Debian-User] Gtk fonts on non desktop (non gnome) X environment.

2008-07-17 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 12:00:34 -0600 Javier Vasquez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 9:32 AM, Jochen Schulz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Javier Vasquez: Is there a configuration file I can create by hand under ~/.some_name which would help me accomplish getting the fonts I'd

[OT] How to Analyze/Study Source Code?

2008-07-16 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
Hey everyone, Just wondering how you guys go about studying code? Do you read every single source file and then make notes? Or is there a tool that goes about and draws out relationships between source code files? I ask this because I am looking into adding a feature/fix to pcmanfm but it looks

Re: [OT] How to Analyze/Study Source Code?

2008-07-16 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Wed, 16 Jul 2008 18:45:54 +0100 Sam Kuper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/7/16 Amit Uttamchandani [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Just wondering how you guys go about studying code? My guess is: different people use different techniques, some more formal than others. I'm looking forward

Re: how often is etch kernel updated

2008-07-16 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Wed, 16 Jul 2008 19:41:56 +0100 michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2008-07-16 at 19:44 +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2008-07-16 18:22, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: michael wrote: I'm at 2.6.18-6-686 and believe I need

Re: Create single PDF out of several other files

2008-07-16 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Wed, 16 Jul 2008 17:30:54 -0300 Eduardo M KALINOWSKI [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dotan Cohen escreveu: I have a user who processes documents from other people. In Windows she would select 20+ documents (all of the same type, usually pdf, gs, or word files) and make a single PDF document

Re: Webcam setup

2008-07-16 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Wed, 16 Jul 2008 13:41:32 -0400 Frank McCormick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I am trying to test a Webcam (it's recognized by the USB system) on my Sid installation and am getting nowhere. The problem seems to be a lack of a video device. The

Re: install debian on dell poweredge 1950

2008-07-16 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:49:30 +0700 Surachai Locharoen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello I am running the following set up: A dell poweredge 1950: running Debian Etch - 1x Dual Core 64-bit Intel(r) Xeon(r) 5050, 2x2MB Cache, 3.00GHz, 667MHz FSB - 2GB 533MHz (4x512MB), Single Ranked

Re: [OT] How to Analyze/Study Source Code?

2008-07-16 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Wed, 16 Jul 2008 17:48:02 -0500 Jordi GutiƩrrez Hermoso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/7/16 Amit Uttamchandani [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 4. doc++ - Documentation system that generates LaTeX/html. Latest upload was on dec 2002. Doxygen could also work here. It's more recent, and it does more

Re: Fast PDF File Viewing

2008-07-15 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Mon, 14 Jul 2008 20:20:30 -0600 Chris Burkhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Amit Uttamchandani wrote: In comparison to a colleague's acrobat reader on windows, his acrobat reader performs a lot faster. Are your machines comparable processor- and RAM-wise? (sorry for not answering your

Re: Fast PDF File Viewing

2008-07-15 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:35:29 +0300 Arthur A [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark Neidorff wrote: On Monday 14 July 2008 10:20 pm, Chris Burkhardt wrote: Amit Uttamchandani wrote: In comparison to a colleague's acrobat reader on windows, his acrobat reader performs a lot faster. Are your

Re: Fast PDF File Viewing

2008-07-15 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:17:51 +0800 (WST) Bret Busby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 14 Jul 2008, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: I tried searching the mailing list archives as well as google for this but did not find any concrete answer. Here at work they have allowed me to use Linux

Re: Fast PDF File Viewing

2008-07-15 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Mon, 14 Jul 2008 21:44:52 -0500 Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/14/08 21:20, Chris Burkhardt wrote: Amit Uttamchandani wrote: In comparison to a colleague's acrobat reader on windows, his acrobat reader performs a lot faster

Re: Automating the configuration of alsa on known HW

2008-07-15 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 19:58:11 +0300 Shachar Or [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Doesn't anyone know? On Friday 11 July 2008 15:39, Shachar Or wrote: Hello! In order to do this, I'll run alsaconf on the HW and copy it's results. So I'm here asking, what files does alsaconf change/create?

Fast PDF File Viewing

2008-07-14 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
I tried searching the mailing list archives as well as google for this but did not find any concrete answer. Here at work they have allowed me to use Linux ;) . Anyways, I am using debian exclusively and try to use Free Software applications wherever I can. Based on my research the fastest PDF

Re: sidux

2008-04-15 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Tue, 15 Apr 2008 07:27:22 +0200 Rico Secada [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 14 Apr 2008 16:35:56 -0700 Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 06:25:11PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: The crucial bit that many miss is that new

Re: [OT] reStructured Text real world usage

2008-04-13 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Fri, 11 Apr 2008 22:40:01 + (UTC) T o n g [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 09 Apr 2008 20:12:03 -0700, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: Inspired by the easy to use wiki syntax, I've been looking around for similar markups that allow for basic rich text output. The most promising

Re: Best/correct way to use Python 2.5 in Etch?

2008-04-13 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Sun, 13 Apr 2008 10:55:14 -0700 (PDT) Rob Gabaree [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I know that Etch comes with Python 2.4 by default and that I can install 2.5 via `aptitude` and have it available via the `python2.5` binary. But once I do that, is there anything else I should do? I've

VLANs on Debian Etch

2008-04-13 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
Hey everyone, I've been googling around for information regarding VLANs on debian. What I need to do is create a VLAN interface so that all packets outgoing from my Etch box (telnet, pings, etc.) are tagged with a specific VLAN. I am not sure how this is done in etch. Here is a summary of

Re: VLANs on Debian Etch

2008-04-13 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Sun, 13 Apr 2008 20:57:51 +0100 Steve Kemp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun Apr 13, 2008 at 12:52:12 -0700, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: * VLAN support has been integrated into Linux Kernel since 2.4.14. Yes. * Not all network cards support VLAN tagging. How do I find out

Re: gdm errors on shutdown

2008-04-13 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Sun, 13 Apr 2008 11:54:16 -0700 (PDT) Rick Dooling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I shutdown or restrart from gdm, I get the following showing up in my log: Apr 13 07:54:12 debian gdm[7927]: CRITICAL: gdm_connection_close: assertion `conn != NULL' failed Apr 13 07:54:12 debian last

Re: [OT] reStructured Text real world usage

2008-04-11 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Thu, 10 Apr 2008 08:54:40 -0400 Brian McKee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9-Apr-08, at 11:12 PM, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: Hey Everyone, Inspired by the easy to use wiki syntax, I've been looking around for similar markups that allow for basic rich text output. I actually use

Re: [OT] reStructured Text real world usage

2008-04-10 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Thu, 10 Apr 2008 09:57:27 -0400 Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 08:12:03PM -0700, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: == January 22, 2008 == * Writing Testbenches Using SystemVerilog, Janick Bergeron === Interesting Reading === * Thomas L

[OT] reStructured Text real world usage

2008-04-09 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
Hey Everyone, Inspired by the easy to use wiki syntax, I've been looking around for similar markups that allow for basic rich text output. The most promising markup I came across is reStructured Text. It is quite straightforward to use and seems like it can output to pretty much anything out

Firestarter dumping blocked events to console

2008-04-09 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
Hi there, I installed firestarter on Debian Etch. From my understanding it is pretty much a front end to the ipstarter firewall. Everything has been going great except for one minor annoyance... Every time I connect to the campus network I get bombarded with broadcast SMB packets...fro my

Re: OLPC

2008-04-06 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Sat, 05 Apr 2008 14:33:09 -0400 Peter Meldrum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have heard that some people have installed Debian on the One Laptop Per Child machine Do you have any info or links to this? I have one of these from the GIGO program. It's full of kiddie toys which I would like

Re: [VERY OT while waiting for Lenny?] reminiscing on old computers

2008-04-06 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Sun, 6 Apr 2008 21:48:18 -0400 Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 06:18:51PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 08:23:20PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: so now we can twiddle our thumbs, go on random OT rants and rest assured

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